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COMBINATION TOOL. No. 374,602. Patented Dec. 13, 1887.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. KOONTZ, OF HELENA, -MONTANA TERRITORY.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

- ESPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,602, dated December 13, 1887.

Application filed July 5, 1887. Serial No. 243,436. (No model.)

To all whoml it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, JOHN L. Koonrz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Helena, in the county of Lewis and Clarke and Territory of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which formapart ofthisspecification.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a perspective view of the combined tool embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a side elevation and partial section of the same.

My improvementis more especially designed as a cigar-box scraper, opener, and closer.

This new article of manufacture consists of a hammer, a claw, a scraper, and a bladed opener all formed from one piece of metal, as will be hereinafter fully described, and set forth in the claim.

In the drawings, A represents the combined tool. It comprises a solid piece of metal bent into a ring or annulus and its ends straightened out into a shank, to which the handle 1 is attached.

2 is the hammer, formed at one point of the rings periphery and extending radially outward therefrom.

3 is a claw formed at a point preferably opposite the hammer.

4is asegment-shaped cutting-edge or scraper extending from the hammer to the claw.

in order that the several tools formed thereon may be properly effective. In the use of the claw, for instance, it is necessary to give the tool considerable throw or oscillation, and the rapid recedenee of the ring from the claw on both sides thereof admits ofthe tool being used with facility. In like manner it will be obvi ous that the other tools formed uponthe ring are ingeniously placed for effective action.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a single metal bar formed into a ring and its ends into a shank, said ring having on its outer edge opposite the handle a projecting lip, a curved cutting-edge formed on the opposite outer edge substantially at rightangles to the lip, a hammer formed at one end of the cutting-edge, and a claw at the other end thereof, all ofsaid elementsbeing'formed ofasinglepiece ofmetal. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. JOHN L. KOONTZ. 

